These are some photos from Warped Tour in Cleveland which I got the chance to shoot last week via a press pass from speakeasymag.com. In case you are unfamiliar with Warped Tour, it was created in 1994 by Kevin Lyman, big skate punk scene guy, and has been touring around the country and world, with interchanging punk scene bands. In its glory days, the Warped Tour was a place for kids to come hang out, watch their favorite bands in one venue, and skate; but today, a lot of people claim it has sold out to certain newer music fads and scenes that play to a certain market of kids. I can partially attest to this as I hadn't heard of 90% of the bands besides Bad Religion, NOFX, Less Than Jake, Big D and the Kids Table, and a handful of others. It's been about six years since I had been to Warped, and it was a little strange being there for reasons besides the music; I felt out of place. As far as shooting goes, it was pretty sunny most of the day, so I struggled for a while to get the motivation to even pick up my camera. And by the time the light got nice, I was working on a pretty good size migraine from being in the sun from 11am-8pm and made the choice call it quits before I ended up getting carried away on a stretcher like a couple unlucky kids I saw. All in all, it was a good day of people watching and sight seeing, and I slid my way backstage a few times and walked around some band trailers with the writer, getting to see some things I ordinarily wouldn't get to.
But my ears are still ringing. . . damn kids and their rock'n roll.
3 comments:
dude you've got a couple really sick frames in there. i've never been to warped tour but i guess that's how i imagined it. i love the one with the bike on the bottom left, very graphic.
dude you've got a couple really sick frames in there. i've never been to warped tour but i guess that's how i imagined it. i love the one with the bike on the bottom left, very graphic.
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